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Object description
[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Three exercise books containing ms diary entries (February 1943 – July 1944, and July – September 1944), and a collection of ms letters to his wife Mary, and son Gordon, by a Major in 7th Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (154th Infantry Brigade, 51st (Highland) Infantry Division), commencing June 1942 prior to embarkation on the SS Stratheden when the Bn moved to N Africa and ending just prior to his death in action in NW Europe on 8 February 1945 (aged 26).
Together with: Letters of condolence from fellow officers to Mary on the death of Allan (February 1945); a photocopy of the citation for his Military Cross; and Ts transcriptions (170pp) of the letters and diary entries, interspersed in chronological order and including extracts from the 7th Battalion War Diary, and with an introduction and explanatory notes by his son, Allan Gordon Lowe.
Content description
[BASIC ACCESSION RECORD] Three exercise books containing ms diary entries (February 1943 – July 1944, and July – September 1944), and a collection of ms letters to his wife Mary, and son Gordon, by a Major in 7th Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (154th Infantry Brigade, 51st (Highland) Infantry Division), commencing June 1942 prior to embarkation on the SS Stratheden when the Bn moved to N Africa and ending just prior to his death in action in NW Europe on 8 February 1945 (aged 26).
Together with: Letters of condolence from fellow officers to Mary on the death of Allan (February 1945); a photocopy of the citation for his Military Cross; and Ts transcriptions (170pp) of the letters and diary entries, interspersed in chronological order and including extracts from the 7th Battalion War Diary, and with an introduction and explanatory notes by his son, Allan Gordon Lowe.
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